KaspeR32 Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 Are SSDs going to be dropping in price anytime soon or is there a new generation on the horizon that I should wait for? I'm getting jumpy not having one and I only hear good things about them. But $250 for 120 Gig?? :helpsmilie: Intel i5-2500k @ 4.4GHz w/ H70 liquid cooler, ASRock PRO3-M Z68 Mobo, 32G 1600Mhz Mushkin RAM, EVGA GTX970 4GB , OCZ Agility 3 128g SSD, SanDisk 240g SSD, Win7 64-bit --Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/livingfood --
Cali Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 Newegg.com has a 120GB SSD for $185 after rebate http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227593 i7-4820k @ 3.7, Windows 7 64-bit, 16GB 1866mhz EVGA GTX 970 2GB, 256GB SSD, 500GB WD, TM Warthog, TM Cougar MFD's, Saitek Combat Pedals, TrackIR 5, G15 keyboard, 55" 4K LED
Kuky Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 If you don't have lot of games SSD are really worth it... at that price anyway. There are now new ones for PCI slots and they use 2 cards configured in RAID0 and they kick some serious butt... they push as high as 700MB sustained transfer rate... just insane... but they also cost an arm and a leg :D PC specs: Windows 11 Home | Asus TUF Gaming B850-Plus WiFi | AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D + LC 360 AIO | MSI RTX 5090 LC 360 AIO | 55" Samsung Odyssey Gen 2 | 64GB PC5-48000 DDR5 | 1TB M2 SSD for OS | 2TB M2 SSD for DCS | NZXT C1000 Gold ATX 3.1 1000W | TM Cougar Throttle, Floor Mounted MongoosT-50 Grip on TM Cougar board, MFG Crosswind, Track IR
MadTommy Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 I have one.. expensive but very good. Arma is the main beneficiary.. and so is Windows. Whether they are worth the money is a judgement call only you can make.. they certainly give me great performance in many games & applications. i5-3570K @ 4.5 Ghz, Asus P8Z77-V, 8 GB DDR3, 1.5GB GTX 480 (EVGA, superclocked), SSD, 2 x 1680x1050, x-fi extreme music. TM Warthog, Saitek combat pro pedals, TrackIR 4
sobek Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 Are SSDs going to be dropping in price anytime soon or is there a new generation on the horizon that I should wait for? I'm getting jumpy not having one and I only hear good things about them. But $250 for 120 Gig?? :helpsmilie: It depends very much on your current hardware. If your mobo features fast 6GB SATA (and the periphery controller can really achieve that performance), you might want to go for the new generation that supplies 400Mb/s or more (those are only becoming available right now). SATA II devices are capable of just a little over 200Mb/s AFAIK. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
JaBoG32_Prinzartus Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 My 2cents: Go for an SSD! I already bought two (Super talent) ssd's and a I am absolutely fine with them. Windows 10, I7 8700k@5,15GHz, 32GB Ram, GTX1080, HOTAS Warthog, Oculus Rift CV1, Obutto R3volution, Buttkicker [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] ЯБоГ32_Принз
sofie_59 Posted February 4, 2011 Posted February 4, 2011 I say wait! The 3:rd generation is coming in mars. And it is a lot faster...... http://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/13441-tredje-generationen-ssd-fran-intel-i-mars http://www.anandtech.com/show/3965/intels-3rd-generation-x25m-ssd-specs-revealed MB:MSI X79A-GD45 CPU:Intel Core i7 3930K 3.2GHz Ram:16 gb Grafik :GTX 680 Sli Win 7 64 bit 1200 W 2 ssd 120 gb 1 2 TB western Digital Caviar Green
Necroscope Posted February 4, 2011 Posted February 4, 2011 Got Win7 and A-10 on SSD. It's really fast. Всех убью, один останусь!
sobek Posted February 4, 2011 Posted February 4, 2011 I say wait! The 3:rd generation is coming in mars. And it is a lot faster...... Sandforce 6GB/s SATA SSDs are already a lot faster than that and they are available right now :huh: Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
Konovalov Posted February 4, 2011 Posted February 4, 2011 Sandforce 6GB/s SATA SSDs are already a lot faster than that and they are available right now :huh: I'm waiting not so much for faster SSD's but rather cheaper ones. Right now a OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB drive is going for around 170 pounds here in the UK. I'd feel much better paying a pound per GB or near that. Intel i7-8700K | Asus Maximus X Formula | Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR4 3200MHz | Gainward Phoenix GTX1070 GLH | Samsung 960 EVO NVMe 1 x 250GB OS & 1 x 500GB Games | Corsair RM750x 750W | Corsair Carbide Air 540| Win10 | Dell 27" 1440p 60Hz | Custom water loop: CPU EK-Supremacy EVO, GPU EK-GTX JetStream - Acetal+Nickel & Backplate, Radiator EK-Coolstream PE 360, Pump & Res EK-XRES 140 Revo D5, Fans 3 x EK-Vardar 120mm & 2 x Corsair ML140 140mm
celticcoho Posted February 4, 2011 Posted February 4, 2011 (edited) I'm waiting not so much for faster SSD's but rather cheaper ones. Right now a OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB drive is going for around 170 pounds here in the UK. I'd feel much better paying a pound per GB or near that. I feel your PAIN. I have 2 of them, Both my gaming PC and office PC, as well as Wife's laptop have them.Only standard HD for storage now, You will love them, Jim:thumbup: Each PC has 2 OCZ 256GB SSD's, OUCH on the price!!! Great on perfomance!!! Edited February 4, 2011 by celticcoho [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]Celticcoho (OriginFreedom) WIN 7 64 bit, I7975 at 3.6ghz,X58 Classified 3 Mobo, 6gb Corsair 2000 ram, 2 ea ATI 5870 Eyefinity 6 2gb's , 27" Ultra Sharp,(main view), 3 23"touch screens , Tm Warthog, Saitek Combat Pedals Track IR 5,:D JIM.:book:
KaspeR32 Posted February 6, 2011 Author Posted February 6, 2011 Thanks all for the replies. That deal on the second post was almost too good to pass up. I have DCS: Black Shark, DCS: A-10c, and FSX that I'm going to try and fit on the 120g OCZ. Oh and Win7 64-bit of course. If I have to only have 2 installed at once so be it. Usually when I'm playing DCS I'm not into FSX so much anyway. Can't wait to see the improvement! Gets here tomorrow =) Intel i5-2500k @ 4.4GHz w/ H70 liquid cooler, ASRock PRO3-M Z68 Mobo, 32G 1600Mhz Mushkin RAM, EVGA GTX970 4GB , OCZ Agility 3 128g SSD, SanDisk 240g SSD, Win7 64-bit --Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/livingfood --
KaspeR32 Posted February 8, 2011 Author Posted February 8, 2011 So I got the OCZ SSD, only to find out my nforce 680i LT MOBO doesn't support AHCI. I'm not sure how big of a deal that is but almost everything I've read says to set up an SSD with AHCI instead of IDE for the SATA port. :( I also read somewhere that in order for TRIM to be used properly by windows 7 it had to be configured using AHCI. Does anyone know how big a deal that is, or if there is any validity to that? (I've already played BETA 4 and there is a HUGE difference already.) Even allowed me to up my resolution to 1680 x 1050. I guess my HDD was a bigger bottleneck than I thought ;) Intel i5-2500k @ 4.4GHz w/ H70 liquid cooler, ASRock PRO3-M Z68 Mobo, 32G 1600Mhz Mushkin RAM, EVGA GTX970 4GB , OCZ Agility 3 128g SSD, SanDisk 240g SSD, Win7 64-bit --Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/livingfood --
71st_Mastiff Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 SSD or not worth the money, yet. Still to expensive and they are proliferating the market with them so the cost should be coming down in the next 3 to 6 months.:thumbup: "any failure you meet, is never a defeat; merely a set up for a greater come back", W Forbes. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts", "He who never changes his mind, never changes anything," Winston Churchill. MSI z690 MPG DDR4 || i9-14900k|| ddr4-64gb PC3200 |zotac RTX 5080|Game max 1300w|Win11| |turtle beach elite pro 5.1|| ViRpiL,T50cm2||MFG Crosswinds|| VT50CM-plus rotor Throttle || Z10 RGB EVGA Keyboard/ G502LogiMouse || PiMax Crystal VR || 32 Asus||
theGozr Posted February 12, 2011 Posted February 12, 2011 Yea will wait for an SSD .. much bigger and better soon.. Fly it like you stole it..
Pilotasso Posted February 12, 2011 Posted February 12, 2011 So I got the OCZ SSD, only to find out my nforce 680i LT MOBO doesn't support AHCI. I'm not sure how big of a deal that is but almost everything I've read says to set up an SSD with AHCI instead of IDE for the SATA port. :( I also read somewhere that in order for TRIM to be used properly by windows 7 it had to be configured using AHCI. Does anyone know how big a deal that is, or if there is any validity to that? (I've already played BETA 4 and there is a HUGE difference already.) Even allowed me to up my resolution to 1680 x 1050. I guess my HDD was a bigger bottleneck than I thought ;) SSD without trim is still faster than any HDD. TRIM is good but the drive also contains its own garbage collection algorithms. It works when your drive is idle. 1 .
Pilotasso Posted February 19, 2011 Posted February 19, 2011 Guys, check this out if your thinking the SDD way: http://hothardware.com/Reviews/OCZ-Vertex-3-Pro-SandForce-SF2000-Based-SSD-Preview/ Soon. .
MTFDarkEagle Posted February 19, 2011 Posted February 19, 2011 (edited) Yeah the vertex 3 should be pretty fast :) But if you have money to spend, go for a Revodrivex2! Those are mindbending fast. Edited February 19, 2011 by MTFDarkEagle typo :beer: Lukas - "TIN TIN" - 9th Shrek Air Strike Squadron TIN TIN's Cockpit thread
Pilotasso Posted February 19, 2011 Posted February 19, 2011 Yes, but if theres Vertex 3 then there will be REVODRIVE 3 as well. ;) .
Ssnake51 Posted February 19, 2011 Posted February 19, 2011 Guys, check this out if your thinking the SDD way: http://hothardware.com/Reviews/OCZ-Vertex-3-Pro-SandForce-SF2000-Based-SSD-Preview/ Soon. I dunno. OCZ has lost me as a customer. Their 160 Vertex 2 died on me less than a week after I installed it. Sent it back to amazon and replaced it with a Crucial SSD that has been working without a hiccup. Also, those interested in purchasing the current version of the Vertex might do well to check out these threads: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1095121 http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1586111 I can understand why they had to switch from 34nm to 25nm, but they should have informed potential customers that the new version is slower and has less capacity.
MTFDarkEagle Posted February 19, 2011 Posted February 19, 2011 @Pilotasso: truth ;) @Ssnake51: well that's kind of unfair really, as you tried only óne example... Lukas - "TIN TIN" - 9th Shrek Air Strike Squadron TIN TIN's Cockpit thread
Pilotasso Posted February 19, 2011 Posted February 19, 2011 You were unlucky for the drive failing on you , I got mine for 4 months without an issue. Even with the shrink the vertex 2 is still one of the fastest mofos out there. .
Ssnake51 Posted February 19, 2011 Posted February 19, 2011 @Pilotasso: truth ;) @Ssnake51: well that's kind of unfair really, as you tried only óne example... Well, if I had tried another one, I would surely have received one of the slower drives as a replacement. I understand and agree with the point you are making: any product no matter how good is going to have some failures. What bothers me more is how OCZ changed the drives without informing customers that they were paying the same money for an inferior product.
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